e fasting in half a quarter of a pint of the
tears of repentance; these pills are good to prevent diseases, as well as
to cure when one is sick. Yea, I dare say it, and stand to it, that if a
man will but use this physic as he should, it will make him live for
ever. But thou must give these pills no other way but as I have
prescribed; for, if you do, they will do no good." "Then he and I set
forward," said the guide, "and I went before; but my man was of but few
words, only he would often sigh aloud."

5. As to the Hill Difficulty, that was no stick at all to Mr. Fearing;
and as for the lions, he pulled their whiskers and snapped his fingers in
their dumfoundered faces. For you must know that Mr. Fearing's trouble
was not about such things as these at all; his only fear was about his
acceptance at last. He beat Mr. Greatheart himself at getting down into
the Valley of Humiliation, till the guide was fain to confess that he
went down as well as he ever saw man go down in all his life. This
pilgrim cared not how mean he was, so he might be but happy at last. That
is the reason why so many of God's best saints take so kindly and so
quietly to things that drive other men mad. You wonder sometimes when
you see an innocent man sit down quietly under accusations and insults
and injuries that you spend all the rest of your life resenting and
repaying. And that is the reason also that so many of God's best saints
in other ages and other communions used to pursue evangelical humility
and ascetic poverty and seclusion till they obliterated themselves out of
all human remembrance, and buried themselves in retreats of silence and
of prayer. Yes, you are quite right. A garment of sackcloth may cover
an unsanctified heart; and the fathers of the desert did not all escape
the depths of Satan and the plague of their own heart. Quite true. A
contrite heart may be carried about an applauding city in a coach and
six; and a crucified heart may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and
may fare sumptuously every day. A saint of God will sometimes sit on a
throne with a more weaned mind than that with which Elijah or the Baptist
will macerate themselves in the wilderness. Every man who is really set
on heaven must find his own way thither; and he who is really intent on
his own way thither will neither have the time nor the heart to throw
stones at his brother who thinks he has discovered his own best way. All
the pilgrims who